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 lOOi COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTUME, ft' ? I I .1 if 7^- 1800 be the outer entrance to Mallet's Palladian villa. It would also suit very well for the gateway to a public garden or park. Fig. 1802 is an iron gate between stone piers. We have introduced it for the sake of showing what we should call a gate utterly without taste, such as we might suppose a blacksmith would design, who had few ideas beyond the mechanical part of his profession ; and who, in the figure before us, may be sup- posed to have looked only to the arrangement of the bars and braces, in such a manner as to make them rivet readily together, and pro- duce a strong whole. What he would consider as beauty in this work would be the curving of the secondary diagonal struts ; and he might, perhaps, expect admiration for the contrivance of the latch. How different the effect of such a gate, in an architectinal point of view, from any of the preceding ones. In figs. 1799 and 1801 the lines of the gate cooperate in the production of a whole, in which there is a unity _^j=, n,,,,, h,, — i^, of direction in the lines, as well as of their rrt^^tiW -'^^ — ^ " kind. The gate before us, fig. 1802, would even have had a better effect, as a work of taste, by the omission of the curved diagoiml.-i,